Forests and woodland cover nearly a third of Argyll. These are wonderful places to explore, with forest trails leading to thundering waterfalls, glorious viewpoints and archaeological features. Wildlife abounds, with red squirrels, sea eagles, beavers, otters and red deer all making their homes here. Argyll has some of Europe’s most significant ancient oak trees. These ‘temperate rainforests’ drip with mosses and lichens. Argyll’s finest forests and extraordinary ‘heritage trees’ have provided the inspiration for our candles, all of which contain therapeutic essential oils derived from woodland species.

A dryad is a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology. Drys signifies "oak" in Greek, and dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, but the term has come to be used for all tree nymphs in general, or all human-tree hybrids in fantasy.

Our inspiration comes from the ancient land in which we live, Argyll, in Scotland. Rich with ancient oak woodlands, mountains and lochs, the county as a whole provides ongoing inspiration for our handcrafted products, all produced at our workshop in Kilmelford